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Talking with AMD’s CEO
On Monday AMD announced a new chip. Code-named “Barcelona.”As part of the press tour they did they invited me to have a chat with Hector Ruiz, AMD’s CEO. Thanks to Rocky Barbanica for running the cameras and doing the editing here. Two-camera shoots sure look nice!I loved when one of the PR team noted “you [...]

Hugh
If you don’t know who Hugh is, you probably haven’t been reading my blog for long.One thing that sets great blogging apart from other kinds is whether or not the author’s true personality comes through. On this post Hugh’s personality comes through big time.I treasure my few examples of Hugh’s work. Thank you Hugh for [...]

300,000 Google Reader lockins
A few people have been asking me to try out Bloglines (which just got a nice update) and NewsGator (which also just got a nice update). Both of these are very capable news readers. Both of them arguably have some things that are a lot better than Google Reader. So what do I say when [...]

Cool new little Facebook feature (and unfriending)
So, four people unfriended me from Facebook today. Given that I have 4,995 friends that’s probably to be expected. But I have 150 waiting to get onto my friends list. But that brings me to the new feature that just appeared.Facebook now shows me how many friends we have in common BEFORE I add you [...]

Fire Scoble, he’s Facebooking again!
I agree with Ethan Kaplan.Reading the BBC you’d think that someone like me never gets any work done.Of course, if you read this message from my boss, Steve Gillmor, you’ll probably understand why he doesn’t mind me spending time on Facebook.

Bloggers “double linking?”
Louis Gray has an interesting report on blogs that link to themselves.I was joking around with a friend just the other day about this trend. Saying that I should just link to myself more to be like some of the bloggers I’ve been reading lately.I’m so happy I’m not in the page view advertising world.

Baby News, Due Date report
We went to the doctor’s today. Milan’s due date is today but it doesn’t look like birth will happen today. The doctor scheduled us for inducing birth next Tuesday evening. Hmmm, maybe I’ll be able to show up at TechCrunch 40 anyway! When I last saw Mike Arrington he told me he was going to [...]

New Facebook course at Stanford University
Only in Silicon Valley?You can learn how to build Facebook Applications at Stanford University.

FeedBurner and Lifehacker debate full or partial feeds
Interesting debate over on ProBlogger.I’ve made my position very clear in the past: I far prefer full text feeds.